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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder,
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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MRS.
ADDIE LILLIAN (HALL) ZAHREND. A
well-known woman, of Putnam county, Ohio, who was
born and reared in Allen county, is Mrs. Addie
Lillian (Hall) Zahrend. Her husband was a
prominent businessman of this county for many years,
and was engaged in the lumber business, at Leipsic,
at the time of his death, in the spring of 1905.
He was a man of high character, a thorough Christian
gentleman, a leader in all reform movements.
Since his death, Mrs. Zahrend has been
devoting her time and attention to the rearing of
the children who were left in her care. She is
a woman of refinement and culture, deeply devoted to
her domestic life.
Mrs. Addie Lillian (Hall) Zahrend was born at
Gilboa, Putnam county, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1861.
She is a daughter of John F. and Nancy Jane
(Hoagland) Hall.
Mrs. Zahrend spent her early childhood at Gilboa
and, when five years of age, moved with her parents
to Bluffton, Allen county, Ohio, where she was
educated and lived until her marriage. She was
married, June 25, 1885, to JOHN CARL
ZAHREND, and to this union six children were
born, Martha Marie, Robert Franklin, Eugene Hall,
John Carroll, Howard Lewis and Charlotte
Lucil. Martha Marie was married, Feb. 15,
1910, to Charles M. Harris, of Leipsic, Ohio,
and now lives in Gore county, Kansas. Mr.
and Mrs. Harris have three sons, Harold,
Eugene and Charles. Robert Franklin
married Margaret Cotter, of Philadelphia,
Oct. 16, 1909, and now lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania,
near Philadelphia. Eugene Hall was
married, Dec. 17, 1913, to Elizabeth Doyle,
of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he now resides.
Eugene and his wife have one daughter,
Dorothy Elizabeth. The three younger
children, John, Howard and Charlotte, are
still living with her mother and
attending the public schools of Leipsic.
JOHN CARL ZAHREND, was born in
Mecklenburg Schwerin, Germany, June 22, 1858, and
was the son of Herman and Minnie (Henning)
Zahrend. Herman Zahrend was engaged
in farming in Germany and in 1870, came to America
and located at Liberty Center, Henry county.
Upon coming to this country, Herman Zahrend
engaged in railroad work and later resumed farming
near Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio. A few years
later he removed to a farm east of Napoleon and
there lived the remainder of his life. He was
a member of the Dutch Reformed church and a stanch
Republican in politics. Herman Zahrend
and wife were the parents of seven children, John,
who became the husband of Addie Lillian Hall;
Henry, who died at the age of twenty; a
daughter, who died in her childhood; Frederick,
of Napoleon, Ohio, who married Ella Fahringer,
and has two sons, Earl and Frederic;
Harmon, a farmer living near Liberty Center,
Ohio, who married Clara Hudson, and has two
children, Goldie and Ralph; Louise,
who died Feb. 26, 1905, the wife of James
Fahringer, who left her husband with three sons,
Harry, Ora and Arthur; Charles, of
Lima, Ohio, who married Minnie Freeman, and
has three daughters, Vera, Mildred and a
baby.
John C. Zahrend attended the common schools of
Liberty Center, Ohio, and later took a course in the
Detroit business college. He was first
employed as a clerk in a general store at Bluffton,
Ohio, and later engaged in the grocery business at
that place, with Charles Day. He sold out his
interests in the grocery store, a short time after
his marriage, and moved to Lima, Ohio, in 1886,
where he took a position in the shoe store. A
few yeas later he moved to Leipsic, Ohio, and became
a partner of the O. E. Townsend Company, a
company operating a large lumber and planing mill,
in Leipsic. The firm consisted of John
Zahrend, his brother-in-law, O. E. Townsend,
and the latter's father, I. M. Townsend.
Mr. Zahrend continued in this business until it
was sold to the Robert Hixon Lumber Company,
after which he was retained by the latter company as
the manager of the plant. He was also
interested in the Peters Lumber Company, of
Irwin, Kentucky.
Mr. Zahrend was in active business in Leipsic
until his death, Mar. 7, 1905. He was held in
high esteem by his business associates, and
throughout the community where he had lived so many
years. He was a man of strict business
integrity, and had a fine Christian character.
He was a loyal member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and was interested in everything which
pertained to its welfare. He was a class
leader, and a member of the official board of the
Methodist church at Leipsic. He was especially
interested in temperance work.
Since with death of her husband, Mrs. Zahrend
makes her home in Leipsic, with her three unmarried
children. One of Mrs. Zahrend's uncles,
on her mother's side, James Hoagland, died in
his early twenties, while living at Fort Wayne,
Indiana. Before his death, he was elected to
the state Senate of Indiana, but died before the
Legislature convened. He was said to be the
youngest man who had been elected to the Indiana
Senate up to that time.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 328 |
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CHRISTIAN ZIMMERLY
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 516 |
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JOSEPH ZINK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1268 |
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ISAAC ZUERCHER
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 451 |
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